Apparel-cap.



DZBSC AU EX 3140!: )(R 644,379

No. 644,379. Patented Feb. 27, |900.

B. VENDIG &. A. SCHIFF.

. APPAREL CAP.

(Appliction Bled Dec. 1, 1899.)

(In Medel.)

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BENJAMIN VENDIG AND ALEXANDER SCHIFI", Oli NE\V YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,379, dated February 27, 1900.

Application filed December 1, 1899. Serial No. 738,802. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Bc it known that we,BENJAMIN VENDIG and ALEXANDER SCHIFF, citizens et the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented and produced a new and useful Improvement in Caps and Bonnets, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to provide a cap or bonnet especially adapted for infants or childrens wear and to so construct the cap or bonnet that it may be laid flat, washed and treated, and quickly restored to proper shape for wear upon the head.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indit cate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bonnet or cap constructed in accordance with our invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bonnet or cap when flattened out for the laundry or for other treatment.

The bonnet or cap consists of a piece of fabrie A of any desired character, which fabric at or near one longitudinal side is provided with a hem 10, in which a draw-string 1l is located, and the ends of the fabric are inclined from the center in opposite directions toward opposing sides, forming thereby two inclined edges 12 and 13 at each end. The edges 12, which incline in direction of the side of the material containing the draw-string 11, are provided at one end of the fabric with loops or eyes 1i and at the other end of the fabric with buttons 15 or theirequivalents, adapted to be received by the loops 1l. The fabric may be decorated in any suitable or approved manner, and strings 16 are secured to the fahric where the inclined edges 13 connect with the adjacent side edge of the fabric.

\Vhen the cap or bonnet is to be shaped to fit the head, the ends of the draw-string 11 are pulled outward together, thus gathering the edge of the fabric in which the draw-string is located, and when the edge of the fabric in which the draw-string is placed has been closelygathered, as shown in Fig. l, the gathered portion of the fabric will constitute the central rear portion of the crown of the bonnet or cap and thc inclined edges 12 will then be brought together, and the loops ll upon being carried over the buttons 15 will cause the said edges to be united, thus completing the construction of the lower portion of the cap-erown,while thel inclined edges 13 will form the neck margin of the cap and the adjacent side edge will forni the front margin of the cap or bonnet.

If desired, instead of buttons and loops eyelets and lacings or their equivalents may bc employed to unite the inclined edges 12 of the fabric.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, the hercin-deseribed fiat piece of fabric having parallel side edges, one of which is adapted to form the front edge of a cap and the other of which is provided with a drawingstring whereby it may be gathered together to form the central rear portion of the cap, and the said fabric being further provided with end edges which are inclined from their middle inwardly toward each side edge, those inclined portions which extend toward the side edge containing the drawing-string being provided with dcvices whereby they may be fastened together to forni the rear lower portion of the cap, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EENJAMIN VENDIG. ALEXANDER SClllFF. l.Vitnessesz J. FRED. AeKEn,

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